Microsoft 365 for Beginners
Learn Microsoft 365 from zero: which app does what, your first Excel budget in the free web version, and what Copilot can do. Free lessons and a…
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Free microsoft 365 training
Learn Microsoft 365 from zero: which app does what, your first Excel budget in the free web version, and what Copilot can do. Free lessons and a glossary.
For office managers, small-business owners, admins and anyone who lives in Excel and Outlook and wants to spend less time on copy, paste and version clean-up.
Microsoft 365 is the bundle most offices run on: Word for documents, Excel for numbers, PowerPoint for slides, Outlook for email, Teams for chat and meetings, and OneDrive and SharePoint to keep the files. Most people use a tenth of it, and lose hours a week to the gaps: files emailed back and forth as "budget v7 FINAL", totals typed in by hand, and the same report rebuilt every month.
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Microsoft 365 for Beginners
Learn Microsoft 365 from zero: which app does what, your first Excel budget in the free web version, and what Copilot can do. Free lessons and a glossary.
Microsoft 365 courses
Short series of lessons in order, from the basics to doing the real thing in a free tool.
Every lesson
Each lesson opens with a real business problem, works through it with real numbers and ends with a quick quiz.
Microsoft 365 Explained: Which App Does What, Free vs Paid
What Microsoft 365 includes, which app to use for which job, where files should live (OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams) and what the free web apps leave…
Excel for the Web Tutorial: Your First Budget Spreadsheet
A beginner Excel for the web tutorial: build a monthly budget, turn it into a table, total it with AutoSum, flag overspending and share one link.
Microsoft 365 Copilot for Beginners: Excel, Word, Outlook, Teams
What Microsoft 365 Copilot does in Excel, Word, Outlook and Teams, which plans include it, how to word a request and how to check the answer.
The microsoft 365 glossary
Plain-English definitions with worked examples.
Glossary: 12 terms
- AutoSum
AutoSum is a button in Excel (on the Home and Formulas tabs) that totals the numbers next to the selected cell in one…
- Cell reference (relative and absolute)
A cell reference is the address of a cell in a formula, such as B2. A relative reference (B2) shifts when you copy the…
- Co-authoring
Co-authoring is when several people open and edit the same Word, Excel or PowerPoint file at the same time, each…
- Conditional formatting (Excel)
Conditional formatting in Excel changes how a cell looks (fill color, font color, icons or data bars) automatically…
Do the repetitive parts with AI
Stepthrough started as free AI training. The AI at work lessons show how to hand the repetitive parts of microsoft 365 work to AI tools, step by step, and the AI glossary explains the AI words in plain English.
Frequently asked questions
Is the microsoft 365 course really free?
Yes. All 3 lessons, the 12-term glossary are free, with no sign-up and no credit card.
Do I need any experience?
No. Office managers, small-business owners, admins and anyone who lives in Excel and Outlook and wants to spend less time on copy, paste and version clean-up. Every lesson starts with a real business problem and works through it step by step.
How long does it take?
About 35 minutes for all 3 lessons. Each one is short enough to finish in one sitting and ends with a quick quiz.
Can AI help with microsoft 365?
Often, for the repetitive parts. Stepthrough's free AI lessons at https://learn.ynteractive.com/ai show how to hand that work to AI tools, step by step.
Ready? Lesson 1 takes about 8 minutes
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